Trump's bigotry is playing to his base: Analyst

US President Donald Trump's bigotry is playing to his base which includes working class and lower middle class whites who are terrified of what their future holds for them, says Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist. 

Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday while commenting on Trump’s controversial policy of separating children from immigrant families.   

On Wednesday, New York elected representatives, clerics, activists and lawyers accused the Trump administration of deliberately delaying the reunification of migrant families separated at the US-Mexico border.

The coalition of activists called on Trump to abolish the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), a detention center in Harlem where around 250 migrant children have been housed without their parents being informed.

Some 2,300 children were separated from their families as a consequence of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" practice about undocumented immigrants crossing the border with Mexico.

“At this stage of Trump’s presidency, there is no longer any doubt amongst the majority of Americans that this president is the most bigoted, ruthless, heartless, sociopathic individual to reside in the White House,” Hoenig said.

“Although one can rarely honestly say what someone’s motives are for whatever one does, attorney Avenatti comes closest when he says that Trump does not want to reunite the families as a way of ‘stripping the dignity of women, Muslims, immigrants and people that don’t look like me’. His only real base of support at this time in his reign are working class and lower middle class whites who are terrified of what their future holds for them and need to lash out at the most vulnerable people possible,” he added.

“Immigrants and other marginalized people have always been the scapegoats of frightened white people who have little hope of a successful life due to the economic calamity that has befallen their lives. There isn’t a city in America where minimum wage can afford one a one bedroom apartment. Tens of millions of people are without health care. Pensions have been robbed by bankers and hedge funders to pay for their exorbitant lifestyles at the expense of millions. Our wars are unending and taking its toll on America’s youth. And who’s at fault to these people? Immigrants and people of color,” the analyst said.

“Trump also knows that the next crisis will detract America’s attention away from this family separation policy. Whether it be something of a foreign policy nature or domestic, the plight of families that don’t look like the majority and speak very little to no English will become an afterthought. But his base will know how he stood up for them by depriving the most vulnerable among us of the most simplest things in life - family cohesion,” he concluded.

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